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Free Article The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/2009
Free Article Radio's America: The Great Depression and the Rise of Modern Mass Culture.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/2009
Free Article Monetary policy in the Great Depression: what the Fed did, and why. (Federal Reserve System)(includes related article)
Magazine article from: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review; 3/1/1992

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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/2009; ; 567 words ; The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. By Amity Shlaes. (New York, N.Y.: Harper Collins Publishers...Roosevelt administrations-- helped to make the Depression Great (9). She seeks to redress what she regards as an imbalance... Read more
Radio's America: The Great Depression and the Rise of Modern Mass Culture.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/2009; ; 588 words ; Radio's America: The Great Depression and the Rise of Modern Mass Culture. By Bruce Lenthall. (Chicago...research for his dissertation, Lenthall saw irony, not insanity. Depression-era Americans, he reminds readers, felt overwhelmed by change... Read more
Monetary policy in the Great Depression: what the Fed did, and why. (Federal Reserve System)(includes related article)
Magazine article from: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review; 3/1/1992; ; 700+ words ; ...world - was in the midst of the Great Depression. Today, interest in the Depression...Federal Reserve policy in the Great Depression. Historical analysis of Fed...regulatory domain. AN OVERVIEW OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION Analysts generally agree that... Read more
Rethinking the Great Depression.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/2004; ; 534 words ; Rethinking the Great Depression. By Gene Smiley. (Chicago: Ivan...historical transformation such as the Great Depression in 165 pages. The author writes...given one idiosyncratic view of the Great Depression; the author makes no attempt to... Read more
Changing the rules: state mortgage foreclosure moratoria during the great depression.
Magazine article from: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review; 11/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...mortgage foreclosures during the Great Depression. This article describes the...borrowers. The evidence from the Great Depression demonstrates how government...delinquent mortgages during the Great Depression. Mortgage delinquency rates... Read more
Some observations on the Great Depression.(response to article by Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian in this issue, p. 2)
Magazine article from: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Quarterly Review; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...United States was followed by the Great Depression in the 1930s. Will the prosperity...1990s be followed by another great depression in the coming decade? This question...are the first to study the Great Depression systematically from the perspective... Read more
Why did productivity fall so much during the Great Depression? (*).
Magazine article from: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Quarterly Review; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; The Great Depression brought a striking short-r...TFP fell throughout the Depression and was about 18 percent...labor input during the Depression. Capital utilization fell...labor input during the Depression. I focus on two types of...workers at the time of the Great Depression ... Read more
Ewing, E. T., and Hicks, D. (eds), Education and the Great Depression: lessons from a global history.(Book review)
Magazine article from: History of Education Review; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...D. (eds), Education and the Great Depression: lessons from a global history...13-97-8082-04714-33, 324pp. Education and the Great Depression: Lessons from a Global History...scholarship on education and the Depression. The work seeks to contribute... Read more
The Great Depression.
Magazine article from: National Review; 12/4/1987; ; 353 words ; The Great Depression by John A. Garraty (Harcourt Brace...course, and consequences of the Great Depression. He has emerged with answers that...worst. The Great Lost Hero of the Great Depression was--guess who--John Maynard Keynes... Read more
Great depression II?(Editor's Page)
Magazine article from: Coatings World; 3/1/2009; ; 529 words ; ...would be referred to as a depression. While a definition may be elusive, a depression is characterized by abnormal...as a yardstick, the last depression in the U.S. occurred during the Great Depression of the 1930s. From August...unprecedented (at least since the Great ... Read more
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